Anthony Ray
Cathedral Administrator of Music
Originally from southern California, Anthony Ray is a Salt Lake City-based choral musician, genealogist, and writer. His music education began at age twelve, having studied clarinet, organ, and voice. At the prompting of his organ teacher, Mary Zimmerman, he began to take voice lessons with Alis Clausen Odenthal and joined his first choir, the Antelope Valley Master Chorale, while a junior at West Coast Baptist College. While attending WCBC, he started a handbell choir and performed in the college orchestra. Upon graduation, he worked as a music educator and taught elementary through high school music classes.
Anthony is currently a member of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Seattle-based choral ensemble Chorosynthesis, Street Symphony Chorus, and was formerly a staff singer at St. Thomas the Apostle Episcopal Church in Hollywood and St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in Westwood. He has performed with many choral ensembles including the Sunday Night Singers, Tonality, Lore, and other southern California-based groups. He has worked with esteemed conductors such as Gustavo Dudamel, Grant Gershon, Jenny Wong, Eric Whitacre, Maria Guinand, Alan Gilbert, Zubin Mehta, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Susana Mälkki among many others. He can be heard in the recent recordings of music by Scott Perkins, Eric Whitacre, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, and the Grammy Award winning recording of Mahler's 8th Symphony with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. His voice has been described as particularly suited for early music and baroque styles. His current on-going project, P7, is to record Gregorian chant in parking structures, highlighting the juxtaposition of sacred and mundane.
In addition to his musical interests and pursuits, Anthony is also an avid genealogist and historian, specializing in California, Southwest, and Mexican research. He is a writer and dabbles in architectural photography. He is an oblate of St. Andrew's Abbey, a Benedictine community in Valyermo, California. He holds bachelor’s degrees from West Coast Baptist College (religious education) and California State University Los Angeles (music).
Anthony is currently a member of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Seattle-based choral ensemble Chorosynthesis, Street Symphony Chorus, and was formerly a staff singer at St. Thomas the Apostle Episcopal Church in Hollywood and St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in Westwood. He has performed with many choral ensembles including the Sunday Night Singers, Tonality, Lore, and other southern California-based groups. He has worked with esteemed conductors such as Gustavo Dudamel, Grant Gershon, Jenny Wong, Eric Whitacre, Maria Guinand, Alan Gilbert, Zubin Mehta, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Susana Mälkki among many others. He can be heard in the recent recordings of music by Scott Perkins, Eric Whitacre, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, and the Grammy Award winning recording of Mahler's 8th Symphony with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. His voice has been described as particularly suited for early music and baroque styles. His current on-going project, P7, is to record Gregorian chant in parking structures, highlighting the juxtaposition of sacred and mundane.
In addition to his musical interests and pursuits, Anthony is also an avid genealogist and historian, specializing in California, Southwest, and Mexican research. He is a writer and dabbles in architectural photography. He is an oblate of St. Andrew's Abbey, a Benedictine community in Valyermo, California. He holds bachelor’s degrees from West Coast Baptist College (religious education) and California State University Los Angeles (music).